MDEQ Lifts Closure for Station 15 in Ocean Springs No Advisories in Effect

Posted:
November 15, 2017

(JACKSON, Miss.) – The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, lifted a beach closure Wednesday for Station 15 (Shearwater Beach in Ocean Springs). All stations across the Mississippi Gulf Coast are open.

The closure is lifted for:

•Station 15 — Shearwater Beach — from Weeks Bayou east to Ashley Place in Ocean Springs.

More information about the Mississippi Beach Monitoring Program and the location of beach sampling stations is available at: http://opcgis.deq.state.ms.us/beaches. To receive beach advisories directly, send an email to rwilbur@mdeq.ms.gov for inclusion in a public group email list, text “MDEQbeach” to 95577, or follow MDEQ on Twitter: @MDEQ.

Late Cretaceous age fossil crinoid, Dunnicrinus mississippiensis, calyx and ossicles in a slab of crinoidal limestone from the Prairie Bluff Chalk in Clay Co. Photo: George Phillips, @MSScienceMuseum. #FossilFriday @dtleader